C. S. Lewis Quotes
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
Quotes to Explore
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
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If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.
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Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
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I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
